On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Schuster, David <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like I wasn't updating the themes right or tomcat as when I removed > files in the tomcat rebuilt and then opened it I see 3.2. Now to identify > those changes I made in 3.1 and reimplement. I'm documenting those changes > for future reference. > > I presume that is why you are supposed to make changes to source and run ant? > How will those changes get reimplemented in 4 or will I have to reimplement > them again?
That depends on the type of changes. Changes to themes can be made in the [dspace]/webapps/xmlui/themes/ directory as long as you remember during upgrades/rebuilds that you didn't put them into [dspace-src]. Same goes for configuration changes. As far as themes go, my recommendation is to make a minimal skeleton custom theme that inherits all the XSL templates from its parent theme and only keep your template overrides in it. That way you get free updates to the base theme during any DSpace upgrade. Of course, you still have to port any changes to the templates you customized manually. But I've yet to write extensive documentation on this method. Any changes to .java source files are recommended to be made as overlays (see [1]) so that you can easily see what changes you made and update them as needed for the new version. Alternatively, if you prefer to use a version control system for keeping track of changes, a diff between the unmodified and customized source of the same version would serve the same purpose. In both cases you need to run both maven and ant to build and deploy such changes. [1] https://ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/11915 Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
